ODYSSEY PLOT Flashcards
key events book 1
-Mt. Olympus Athena asks Zeus to let OD travel home
-OD on Ogygia with Calypso
-Athena visits Telemachus
-OD asks suitors to leave
key events book 2
-Telemachus watches suitors eat his stuff and threatens them
-Antinous says Penelope lead them on with her funeral shroud
-Omen of two eagles for the suitors death
-Athena disguises herself as telemachus and gathers a crew and ship
-Eurycleia asks T not to go to see but he reassures
key events book 3
-T visits King Nestor and his people are sacrificing bulls to poseidon
-Nestor tells the story of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, tells T to visit Agamemnons brother menelaus in Sparta
-Athena turns into an eagle and Nestor like wow and vows to sacrfice to her
book 4 key events
-T goes to Sparta to see Menelaus and helen
-They share fond stories of OD
-suitors plan to kill T and penelope hears
-Athena sends phanton in the form of her sister to reassure
book 5 key events
-Zeus sends hermes
-Calypso beefs Hermes that she cant keep OD as male gods are allowed to do this
-OD first appearnce, crying
-Od builds ship with tools from Calypso
-posideon makes a storm and ruins ship
-OD prays to him and he lets him reach the island of the Phaecians
book 6
-Athena makes Nausicaa go to shore where OD is woken by them naked
-Nausicaa agrees to help him but he should enter alone and ask Queen Arete the queen for help
book 7
-Athena cloaks OD in obscuring mist
-throws himself at Aretes feet
-Alcinous says he will help Odysseus and give him a ship to get home
book 8
-Alcinous says that once a crew is made up they will have a celebration feast
-the bard Demodeocus tells of the trojan war and OD cried and Alcinous notices and suggests athletics
-Champions tease OD into partaking and he wins YAYY
-OD given gifts
-Another story about troy and OD still crying then asked to reveal his identity
book 9
-Odysseus recounts his adventures
-Lotus eaters his men forget home
-then to the Cyclopes land, Polyphemus eats 6 men, Nobody trick and stabs in the eye
-OD reveals true identity and then Polyphemus tells his dad
book 10
-OD and men stay with Aeolus for a month and he gives them bag of winds they get rlly close to Ithaca and his men unleash them
-land of the Laestrygonians (giant cannibals) and they escape
-went to Aeaea where Circe is who turns men into pigs, Hermes tells him to find a plant to counter potion (stays there for a year)
-elpenor falls of roof and dies
-Circe tells OD to go to the land of the dead to talk to the prophecy Tiresias
book 11
go to land of the dead and promise elpenor he will get a proper burial
-Tireseus says Od will have a hard journey home, if Helios cattle eaten they will die and he needs to make a sacrifice to Posideon when home
book 12
-return to Circe to bury elpenor
-Circe gives advice on how to avoid sirens and he does this wax stuff but he is tied to mast
-Scylla monsta (nicki minaj coded) and Charybdis whirlpool
-made it to Heliod land and men eat cattle, Zeus sends storm that kills everyone but OD
book 13
-posideon is allowed by zeus to take out his anger on the Phaecians for helping Odysseus
book 14
-OD in Ithaca and Athena disguises so he doesnt recognise his home
-She appears disguised as a shepherd and OD doesnt reveal himself which she praises him for
-she disguises him as a shepherd and sends him to see swineheard eumeaus
book 15
Telemachus returns to Itchaca while Athena warns him about the suitors
-omen of eagle holding a goose (good luck)
book 16
-Odysseus gives Eumaeus one more test of
loyalty by telling him that he plans to beg for help at the palace.
-OD reveals himself to Telemachus
-amphinomous tells the suitors to hold off on the plan to kill T
book 17
-prophet tells penelope that OD back in ithaca
-OD begs the suitors to see who is the most cruel
-Antinous throws a chair at OD
book 18
-irus begger fights odysseus for the entertainment of the suitors (mainly antinous) OD wins
-OD warns Amphinomous
-Od tells the maidservents they werent doing their jobs esp the one thats with antinous
book 19
-OD and telemachus hide all the weapons
-EUrycleia reocgnises the boar scar
-Penelope says to disguised OD about her competition plan
book 20
Amphinomous listens to the seer who is telling the suitors of bad omens but they ignore him
book 21
contest!!
-Antinous asks for postpone till next day as no one is doing the bow thing well
-Odysseus tries and does it and they turn to fight the suitors
book 22
odysseus prays to apollo and shoots atinouus
-suitors offer to repay but OD kills them no one is spared
-Athene helps the arrows ect.
Book 23
Penelope tests OD with the bed trick (cant move it as its made form the tree in the room)
Od has his final task of his sacrfice to posideon to complete
